In each coffee cherry there are two pieces of beans.
After the picking, shifting, and rotating process, we separate between the peaberry and cherry coffee beans. 95% of beans in a coffee tree are cherry beans, its physical charateristics are that it has an oval form and a gorgeous glossy yellow color.

The male or peaberry coffee bean has the whole essence of a coffee tree, and only 5% of beans grown out of a tree are peaberries. These coffee beans need to be manually selected to separate between cherry beans. As it is very scarce and labour intensive, only in place where labour is cheaper like Indonesia can you ask people to pick them out one by one.

There are a few reasons this rare “treat” is so pricey. The animal weuse is rare cat-like mammal called civet, which has special musk glands that gives the coffee extra special flavor. The coffee is made by feeding coffee “cherries” (the fruits of coffee plants) to indonesian civets. When the chivets eat the fruits, they digest the fruit part and pass the seed-like coffee bean part through their system. Then the coffee beans are picked out and roasted like regular coffee beans.